| Bicycle Safety |
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Did you know that each year over 500,000 people are treated in emergency rooms for bicycle-related injuries and more than 700 people die as a result of these injuries?
May is National Bike Month. The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center is the national clearinghouse for bicycle and pedestrian-related safety, health, planning, engineering, policy, education, enforcement, and accessibility. The website contains a variety of information and tools to help educate drivers and bicyclists and to promote bicycling in your community. For more information visit http://www.bicyclinginfo.org/ |
| Best Practices Resource |
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Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center has evaluated several studies in the following areas of potential prevention strategies for bicycle injury:
Bicycle helmet effectiveness
Education to increase helmet use
Legislation to increase helmet use
Bicycle lanes and paths
Bicycle skills training
Miscellaneous interventions
The reviews can be found here:
http://depts.washington.edu/hiprc/practices/topic/bicycles/index.html |
| National Bicycle Safety Network |
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This Networking group was first established under the co-leadership of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to define an agenda for enhancing bicycle safety. Members contributed to a final product: "National Strategies for Advancing Bicycle Safety" released in June 2001.
The group seeks to encourage bicycle use as a form of recreation, transportation, and exercise-but most importantly collectively strives to enhance the safety of bicyclists, thus reducing the numbers of those injured and killed in traffic related crashes.
The National Strategies Report can be viewed here:
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/pedbimot/bike/bicycle_safety/ |
| NACCHO Policy Statement |
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A Statement of Policy is a concise statement of NACCHO's stance toward a particular issue and serves as a call to action for the organization and its members. NACCHO has developed policy statements on many injury prevention related issues. The policy statement on bicycle helmet laws is available here: http://www.naccho.org/advocacy/Resolutions/injury.cfm
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| Local Health Department in Action |
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 Seattle/King County Public Health worked collaboratively with the County Board of Health to pass a bicycle helmet law, applicable to all ages. For more information on this local health department's efforts around pedestrian and bike safety please visit http://www.metrokc.gov/health/injury/traffic.htm#bikesafety
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| Resource Guide on Laws Relating to Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety |
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This resource guide contains a compilation of vehicle and traffic laws that were judged by the guide's developers to have the potential to affect pedestrian or bicycle safety, either positively or negatively. It is designed for easy use by anyone interested in vehicle and traffic law and pedestrian or bicycle safety. This might include state and local bicycle and pedestrian professionals, legislative service bureaus, and others who work with bicycle and pedestrian laws.
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